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This is a duplicate posting of https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/182901685.
There I was mainly interested in the parasitoid wasp on the gall.
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Género BrasemaObservador
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Looks like this is a parasitoid on Coyote Bush Bud Gall Midge, Rhopalomyia californica.
I'm just guessing on the species because Russo says that Platygaster californica is the most common parasitoid on the galls and photos I've seen are roughly the same. But I gather that there are a handful of others, some from different families like Torymidae and Pteromalidae.
The other photos show the twig and the wasp apparently ovipositing or getting ready to do that.
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Família PhoridaeObservador
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Several of these flies were hanging out at a Pheidole ant nest where something strange was going on, maybe an attack by Neivamyrmex army ants. I suggested that the flies might be phorids mostly because they're little, kind of chunky, and associated with a possible phorid host. I wish I had a better photo, but I never saw one land.
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Pelegrina aeneolaObservador
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BL 6 mm
Guessing Metaphidippus cf manni. Or maybe Pelegrina sp.
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Oxyopes salticusObservador
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BL 7 mm. This is a very pale individual. Could it have just molted?
Collected (with permission) and released after photography.
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BL 5 mm
Collected (with permission) and released after photography.
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Género TibellusObservador
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BL 10 mm
Collected (with permission) and released after photography.
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BL 5 mm
Note the powerful forelegs.
PME about equidistant between ALE and PLE, which wouldn't be typical of Sassacus.
Second photo shows it in the retreat it spun in the collection vial.
Collected (with permission) and released after photography.
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Sassacus vitisObservador
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BL 5 mm
Collected (with permission) and released after photography.
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Aranhas-Lobo (Família Lycosidae)Observador
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BL 4 mm
Collected (with permission) and released after photography.
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Oxyopes scalarisObservador
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7 mm BL.
Collected (with permission) and released after photography.
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Género MecaphesaObservador
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BL 6mm
Collected (with permission) and released after photography.
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Oxyopes salticusObservador
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BL 5mm
Collected (with permission) and released after photography.
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Género MetaphidippusObservador
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BL 6 mm. PMEs are almost equidistant between ALEs and PLEs, but just a bit closer to the ALEs.
Collected (with permission) and released after photography.
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Subfamília LycosinaeObservador
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BL 5 mm
ALEs aren't distinct in the photos, but I think they're there.
Collected (with permission) and released after photography.
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Araniella displicataObservador
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7 mm BL
Collected (with permission) and released after photography.
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Oxyopes scalarisObservador
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6 mm BL
Collected (with permission) and released after photography.
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Oxyopes scalarisObservador
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7 mm BL
Collected (with permission) and released after photography.
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Casuarinas (Género Casuarina)Observador
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About 15 m tall, inside the ITT antenna farm in the Palo Alto Baylands.
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Hypena abalienalisObservador
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I'm completely relying on iNat's "we're pretty sure" ID here.